United States: Virginia man jailed four years for Afghanistan bribes

An independent contractor for a trucking company in Afghanistan that delivered fuel to U.S. Army bases was sentenced to four years in prison for offering a U.S. serviceman bribes to falsify confirm fuel shipments that weren’t really delivered.

Akbar Ahmed Sherzai, 50, of Centreville, Virginia, pleaded guilty in February last year to one count of conspiracy to commit bribery.

In addition to the four-year prison sentence, federal judge Margo Brodie of the Eastern District of New York ordered Sherzai to forfeit $54,000.